Media Priorities

I'm with Ace on this one. First of all, what's happening in Detroit may be what happens to the rest of the country under Obamacare if it's ever actually implemented. Second, it's funny how the media makes a "national conversation" out of the Zimmerman trial but ignores things which are arguably more relevant to the national (because they are actually systematic and endemic):

The media wants to talk a bunch about the Zimmerman case and have "national conversations" about lessons we need to learn from a 45-second confrontation involving two people. 

Notice they don't want to have national conversations about what lessons we can learn from 51 years of True Blue Democratic administration in Detroit.

Things like the slow decline to bankruptcy of Detroit under the union regs and Democrat policies (only to be told, in essence, to drop dead by the Obama White House), or like the similar bankruptcy of every other city in high-tax, high-spending blue-as-the-ocean California, are largely ignored by the media. They sometimes/often report that it happened (a rare case of actually reporting the news, though without any real investigative journalism involved), but it's for some reason never material for a "national conversation." Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to delay the full implementation of the employer mandate (though not the evil HHS contraceptive/abortifacient mandate) while working on finding a way to satisfy his special interests group (like the unions, which are suddenly against it), knowing full well that this is exactly the kind of thing that will turn American into one big Bankrupt California, or Detroit. And when the unemployment rate goes up permanently, I expect the crime rate to follow.

But yes, dear media and Dear Leader, please feel free to make this a national conversation about how we need to get rid of "stand your ground" laws and need more strict gun control, and about how self-defense is raciss.